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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
9:08 AM (Pacific)
Prepare yourselves for some serious rambling... I happen to have no point.
I did lots of pink, purple, and pink-purple eye looks last week. Trying to see what works best. But then I thought that it was really hard to compare with anything else. I mean, I've already gone through a colour purge before so whatever really doesn't work is gone already. I'm only left with colours that in my experience don't look bad. I did sort of compare with my memory of what the unmade eye looked like. And I'm desperately trying to remember the difference between the pink and purple looks and the brown/neutral look I did yesterday...
I've found that I need to step back quite a bit to see the total effect. And for that, I need really bright lighting which I don't often have in the morning. That's part of the reason my eyes always look more on the brown side to me, I think.
Today, I put on some bluish purple and purplish pink. My eyes looked very gold. Good. But then, it's raining quite a bit today and my eyes tend to turn gold on rainy days anyway so is it the makeup or the weather?
Anyway, I'm continuing on the experiment but I'll be using whatever colour strikes my fancy and noting to myself (or maybe I should write it down?) how it looks. With hazel eyes, there are just too many possibilities to try to bring them out according to colour theory.
Some posts from kbdouglas on thelipstickpage.com got me thinking quite a bit. She was talking about tones and such. I said the green blues and blue greens didn't work so well on my eyes. They don't look bad but not great. Now, I do have a greeny blue and bluey green. The bluey green was taken out of a giveaway bag and put back in the regular stash recently. So I must have worn it and decided it worked. So why did I say bluey green didn't work? I also haven't been wearing the greeny blue much. But I did try it before buying so I must have thought it worked... I need to play with these colours and compare them to those I know work. I need to see what makes me so confused about them.
Speaking of the giveaway bag, when I was retrying some stuff in it, I realized everything in it could be made to work. There were a few brown pencils. I decided to leave them in the giveaway bag because I have other brown pencils that I use much more. There was a pale yellow one too. Didn't look bad at all and I have nothing like it. I just don't think I'd wear it. And that was the story with most of the stuff that got discarded. I just don't think I'd wear it. The only things that made it out of the bag were an olive eye pencil (looks good and I don't have anything like it), the bluey green shadow that may be going back after the experiment is over, and a purple loose powder that looks too good with my eyes to get rid of.
You know what? (Told you I'd be rambling.) I think maybe my eyes look best with bright "there" shadows. Smoky or bright. Each time my eyes have really popped was when wearing the "there" colours like purple or green. Sure, a more natural and neutral look looks good but it makes my overall face stand out more than my eyes alone. Hmmm, I need to experiment with more subtle colour to see if I can manage to bring out my eyes with those too...
Hey, I just thought about something my dear boyfriend once told me. I asked him what my best facial feature was. When I insisted, he said the nose (what????) but his original response was that I had no standout feature. That my face was just a good blend, a nice overall picture ya know? Like saying you like a painting rather than saying you like one thing in a painting. I find that interesting and I'm wondering if it might relate to how hard it is for me to make my eyes stand out. Maybe it goes against my face's "nature"? Who knows? Maybe I just need to learn more about the right colours...
Raphaelle
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